The pose of the man in this drawing is one of someone who is lost in the understanding of his or her existence. It is obviously a pose of sadness; however, what is not so obvious is where the sadness is coming from, and that is through a state of confusion and longing for answers. It is through these same eyes that I read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. When imagining the drawing bigger in order to show more of the surrounding scene, I see the narrator’s description in the Invisible Man about living rent-free in a building rented strictly to whites, in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten about.
"Now, aware of my invisibility, I live rent-free in a building rented strictly to whites, in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century, which I discovered when I was trying to escape in the night from Ras the Destroyer," (Ellison, 1947, pp. 5-6).
"Now, aware of my invisibility, I live rent-free in a building rented strictly to whites, in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century, which I discovered when I was trying to escape in the night from Ras the Destroyer," (Ellison, 1947, pp. 5-6).
Can I get back to the beginning?
Deja Vu
Carry on Wayward Son!